Peterloo
Author : Donald Read
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Donald Read
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Robert Poole
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0198783469
The definitive account of a landmark in the development of democracy - and the bloodiest political event of the nineteenth century on English soil.
Author : Jacqueline Riding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1786695820
The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority. 'Excellent' Zadie Smith 'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail' Tim Clayton 'A superb account of one of the defining moments in modern British history' Tristram Hunt 'Peterloo is one of the greatest scandals of British political history... Riding tells this tragic story with mesmerising skill' John Bew On a hot late summer's day, a crowd of 60,000 gathered in St Peter's Field. They came from all over Lancashire – ordinary working-class men, women and children – walking to the sound of hymns and folk songs, wearing their best clothes and holding silk banners aloft. Their mood was happy, their purpose wholly serious: to demand fundamental reform of a corrupt electoral system. By the end of the day fifteen people, including two women and a child, were dead or dying and 650 injured, hacked down by drunken yeomanry after local magistrates panicked at the size of the crowd. Four years after defeating the 'tyrant' Bonaparte at Waterloo, the British state had turned its forces against its own people as they peaceably exercised their time-honoured liberties. As well as describing the events of 16 August in shattering detail, Jacqueline Riding evokes the febrile state of England in the late 1810s, paints a memorable portrait of the reform movement and its charismatic leaders, and assesses the political legacy of the massacre to the present day. As fast-paced and powerful as it is rigorously researched, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre adds significantly to our understanding of a tragic staging-post on Britain's journey to full democracy.
Author : Robert Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0191086207
On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The 'Peterloo massacre', the subject of a recent feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the central episode in Edward Thompsons Making of the English Working Class. It also marked the rise of a new English radical populism as the British state, recently victorious at Waterloo, was challenged by a pro-democracy movement centred on the industrial north. Why did the cavalry attack? Who ordered them in? What was the radical strategy? Why were there women on the platform, and why were they so ferociously attacked? Using an immense range of sources, and many new maps and illustrations, Robert Poole tells for the first time the full extraordinary story of Peterloo: the English Uprising.
Author : Robert Walmsley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Manchester (England)
ISBN : 9780719003929
Author : Alison Morgan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526132486
Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers. Notes to support the reading of the texts are provided, but they also stand alone, conveying the original publications without diluting their authenticity. Following an introduction outlining the massacre, the radical press and broadside ballad, the poems are grouped into six sections according to theme. Shelley’s Masque of Anarchy is included as an appendix in acknowledgement of its continuing significance to the representation of Peterloo. This book is primarily aimed at students and lecturers of Romanticism and social history.
Author : Michael Demson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474428584
Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in Manchester Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence. Contributors explore how attitudes toward violence and the claims of people to participate in government were reflected and revised in the verbal and visual culture of the time. Their analyses provide fresh insights into cultural engagement as a means of resisting oppression and a sign of the resilience of humanity in facing threats and force.Key FeaturesProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of Peterloo Draws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to PeterlooSupplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectives
Author : The Estate of Joyce Marlow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1473556899
***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh*** Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protest turned tragedy; this is the true story of the working class fight for the vote. On August 16 1819, in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, a large non-violent gathering demanding parliamentary reform turned into a massacre, leaving many dead and hundreds more injured. This catastrophic event was one of the key moments of the age, a political awakening of the working class, and eventually led to ordinary people gaining suffrage. In this definitive account Joyce Marlow tells the stories of the real people involved and brings to life the atrocity the government attempted to cover up. The Peterloo Massacre is soon to be the subject of a major film directed by Mike Leigh.
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Harry Buxton Forman
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
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